I (Rachel Ninja Brown) recently received this in the mail:

( If you read my LJ, you will not want to miss this. )

I've been trying to thin out my bookcases, which are getting into double rows. Since SWEENEY'S ISLAND was so disappointing, I decided to begin the two other John Christopher disaster novels that had been sitting around, vowing to ditch them if the first chapter didn't really grab me. Instead, I ended up skimming both of them. Really skimming. So ( Read more... )

I had originally planned to write about these novels in the same entry merely because I read them in quick succession, and also because they're both utterly obscure novels by writers who are better-known for other books, so most likely no one but me has read them. But as I began to write, I realized that they do have some interesting parallels and ( Read more... )